Thread by @ABillionLives

10) Why is anyone surprised that JUUL can survive without flavors for six months? They have billions of dollars. Why is nobody addressing that the majority of youth use is with JUUL products, which now has no flavors on the market?

Why distract away from opioids, obesity, alcohol, meth, cigarettes, etc? Aren’t those the real epidemics we should be talking about? Is this diversion biased by funding?

9) Why do they keep calling it a “Youth Vaping Epidemic?” Are kids dying from vaporizing nicotine? How is it an epidemic? Addiction? Kids are also “addicted “to video games, caffeine, energy drinks, sugar, etc. Some of those addictions are actually killing people.

Why would they want to hurt so many people by making a decision made on bad information? Are they biased by their funding?

8) Why do the health activists keep saying they agree with @realDonaldTrump's position on 9/11? He was misinformed (like many of us) into thinking nicotine vapor products were killing kids, when in fact we now know it was caused by illegal tainted THC products.

Smoking rates among teens is at an all-time low because kids aren’t using the worse product (cigarettes). That’s uncomfortable to discuss. Why are none of these anti-smoking activists celebrating cigarettes becoming obsolete? Because their funding (billions) is drying up?

7) Why do the health activists keep deflecting from the fact that most (~90+%) of the kids regularly using nicotine vapor products (~20%) were already using/dabbling in cigarettes?

6) Why do the health activists say that nicotine vapor technology is as bad as smoking? Are they blinded/restricted by their funding? There is almost nobody left in the real science community who believes that. Here’s an analysis of the current science:

bit.ly/RCPreport

5) Why do the health activists say “there is no proof” that nicotine vapor technology helps people quit smoking? Are they blinded/biased by their funding?

Here’s the scientific proof: bit.ly/NEJMreport

It’s clear that it’s the best shot we have at helping our neighbors!

4) If many states already restrict access to 21+, how much will a new federal rule impact the situation? Why are so few of the Bloomberg-funded professional health activists talking about enforcement? Isn’t this an enforcement problem?

3) We don't believe anyone under 21 should be starting to use nicotine (or caffeine, alcohol, or other "drugs"). Why is nobody talking about education? If "the kids didn't know" (hard to believe), why aren't we teaching them?

2) Why is banning flavors the solution presented by the health activists? Are they also opposed to flavored alcohol? Why is there so little difference of opinion/ideas? Are they biased by their common funding sources? Why are they getting funding only to ban flavors?

1) If flavors are the problem & JUUL has removed their flavors...why are kids still using JUUL? Could it be the nicotine they want? Why not remove all nicotine products off the market? Or, are only some nicotine products (cigarettes & pharm) profitable to certain powerful people?

We have 14 big questions after the Trump meeting.

After watching the full meeting (), we would love some answers...